Official Languages committee  As you said, the roadmap somewhat concerns us; it concerns us financially. In my opinion, the best efforts will still be those that are devoted to the communities, to culture and to education. Those are the areas we need to enrich, develop and support. The minority communities n

Official Languages committee  I think that children in British Columbia, and children elsewhere in Canada, must absolutely be able to do it in their own community. That is what we have been working so much on for several years. We encourage interactions between the francophone communities of Quebec and the fr

Official Languages committee  For us, early childhood is an area that we have decided to embrace more in the past two years. For us, early childhood is not included in the education structure…

Official Languages committee  …since we are working with the school networks. However, it is obvious for us that, increasingly, day-care centres must be better equipped and open to welcoming minorities because integration or disintegration begins there. There are more and more exogamous families today. We ne

Official Languages committee  I am going to start the answer and Mr. Lacombe can continue. In a very broad sense, I will say that the conventional learning of French and math, among other subjects, is part of the basic education that every child should get. The cultural component is what makes it possible to

Official Languages committee  It is around $475,000.

Official Languages committee  It is mainly for our basic operations.

Official Languages committee  I wouldn’t say that the projects presented didn’t meet the criteria, given that we did not present any as part of the roadmap, as such. Actually, in the areas we usually work in, Canadian Heritage is our major source of financial support. So we meet Canadian Heritage’s criteria

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to thank you for the invitation to appear before your committee this morning. It is a privilege for us, as representatives of the Association canadienne d'éducation de langue française, to be able to share our viewpoint with the members of the Standing Com